Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Over those three years, Nonprofit Tech for Good and PIR trained more than 60,000 NPO and NGO staff worldwide! billion and is projected to grow to 6.1 9 out of 11 of the fastest-growing countries are in Africa while 9 of out 11 of the fastest-shrinking countries are in Europe. You can view the webinar archive on SlideShare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2016

Nearly one in three (31.5%) people worldwide donated to charity in 2015 and one in four (24%) volunteered. By 2018, the global population of social media users is projected to grow to 2.44 Source: Global NGO Online Technology Report. 95% of NGOs worldwide have a Facebook Page. Source: Global NGO Online Technology Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Through the practice of zakat, it is understood that wealth is something that is to be distributed among all people in a society. Now in its fourth edition, this year’s report provides technology benchmarks for Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States and Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO. I spent my part of my birthday giving a presentation at the Packard Foundation Program Forum on translating the Networked Nonprofit into the Networked NGO.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Stories also need to connect, inspire and motivate people to act. People want to know and see the impact of their donations. It is no secret that people tend to put off doing something important until the last minute. When people feel a sense of urgency, they are more prone to act on behalf of a cause. Sense of urgency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Preliminary results from the 2015 NGO Global Technology Survey reveal that social media is increasingly a primary source of online giving inspiration, but social media calls-to-follow were rarely integrated into the donation and “Thank you” process, and if they were, they were visually underwhelming. Africa Wildlife Foundation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Many NGOs Find Cloud Computing Confusing: Why? Cloud Contradictions in the NGO Sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

If you work for an NGO in another region of the world or have experience delivering capacity building program, I encourage you to join the discussion here. 2) Should funders recommend capacity building consultants or require grantees use certain consultants for projects they fund? Funders: what have you tried in this space?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Our partners around the world have been busy working on some interesting projects, articles, and blogs for the nonprofit sector. Find out how to build an app that people will actually use. NGO Pulse (South Africa). TechSoup Sweden. TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson built his own Instagram printer for an event.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. And then, we dashed off to get some fondue, dress up for the big South Africa party, and stay out ‘til 2 listening to great music and talking shop (just a little).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Now its fourth edition, the 2019 Global NGO Technology Report has over 1,000 useful statistics for NGOs, NPOs, and charities worldwide. The data is also available in the report in infographic format by region: Africa, Asia, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean, and the United States & Canada.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa + Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. --> North America.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

TechSoup Global's vice president for Africa David Barnard did. David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). But then you'd have to get up the next day and run another 25 miles (or more).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

NetSquared holds free or low-cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. NPTech Social.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

and have a reason to hang out with other cool people! The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Arlington, Texas: Bi-weekly Developers Call for the Joseph Storehouse Project. Europe and the UK.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Fast Company reports that the fastest growing age group using Facebook and Google+ are people over 45. Younger people who are the most deeply engaged demographic on social media are likely to also use services like YouTube and also Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram. is another one I’m watching. MyDigitalBridge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

More stories from my recent trip to Africa. Although Benetech has no projects planned in the area of HIV/AIDS, I was interested in learning more about this. Being part of the Schwab Social Entrepreneur program, I had met Garth Japhet from South Africa, who works in this field, and I wanted to understand more of what he does.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Social Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). The "collaborative project planning process" is a mouthful.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She sent me the names of four women from Up with People with descriptions of their work and why she thought they were Solutionary Women. before coming to Up with People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I started GuideStar India as a project of GiveIndia, as there was no single reliable and comprehensive database of non-profits in India. We wanted to equip users with the tools to choose organizations and projects that matched their criteria or decision set, and to facilitate that, we needed to be inclusive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

After a few years of designing and producing educational radio programs in Africa, I decided to go for a Masters in public health-my favorite content area. Any project built from the ground up is, by nature, creative. Also by nature, people in the public health field tend to be good and generous people.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Rather than just telling people how the world needs to improve, the successful social entrepreneur demonstrates how to do it. We pick projects that have the potential for large-scale change: can we deliver something for a tenth of the cost of the existing solution? Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more. Digital Inclusion.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Our friends at NTEN give out NTENny Awards every year to recognize people making a significant contribution to the nonprofit tech community; once again, close to half of the winners were affiliated with NetSquared and our Tech4Good meetups. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. Please join NTEN (and me!)

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The visual story of the Bhopal Medical Appeal was subsequently awarded a Getty Grant for Good in 2011 after winning the 2011 Focus for Humanity NGO Assignment Fellowship. Without Masi’s powerful images and well-crafted visual essay, the story of The Bhopal Medical Appeal would not have reached the millions of people that it did.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

billion people are without clean water. More than half of those people are women and girls. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. MK: So, we just returned from Ghana in West Africa where we convened the 2010 West African Women and Water Training.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And if you’re one of those people and you’re really struggling and you need a lot of assistance and you’ve limited capacity, I feel you, so. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. What I found interesting is that of those people that donated 89% said they’re likely to give through Facebook again.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Their dashboard shows you how many people are using your hashtag on Twitter and Instagram and enables you to track trending hashtags. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. 2,780 NGOs • 133 Countries • 6 Continents. RiteTag :: ritetag.com. Graphic Design Tools. Canva :: canva.com.

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